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An example of work by Marcel Christian Barbeau
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
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Paris/Montreal, November 24, 2001
Press release FOR IMMEDIATE DIFFUSION
Marcel
Barbeau will participate in this year's Biennale Internazionale
dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence Via invitation from the
International Selection committee for the Florence Contemporary Art
Biennial. Marcel Barbeau, Canadian painter and sculptor now
living in Paris, will participate in this year's 3rd edition of this
important international cultural event. The Biennial will be held
from the 7th to the 16th of December at the Fortezza da Basso situated
in the historical centre of Florence.
Barbeau will exhibit one of his recent works, Amour, Champagne et autres choses
(Love, Champagne and Other Things), an acrylic on canvas created in
December of 2000. This work inscribes itself in the series:
"Diversions and Variations", a group of large format paintings, which
were exhibited in the spring and summer of 2000 at the Galerie Montcalm
in Hull and at the Maison de la Culture Côte-des- Neiges in Montreal,
Quebec. For Barbeau, these compositions of ephemeral
three-dimensional objects, which melt into the plane, apparent
themselves, in their free structured coloured tonalities, and strongly
contrasting dissonances, to contemporary music for which Barbeau has
had a passionate interest since 1958.
Major figure of Canadian
art, pioneer of expressive abstraction at the core of the Automatist
movement in the forties, Marcel Barbeau evolved in the fifties towards
a more structured art, without ever forsaking the lyric expressiveness
of his youth. Marcel Barbeau had already exhibited in Italy, between
the years 1962-1992, within the framework of various cultural events.
More recently, in the winter of 2001, he participated in the renown Salon de Mai in Paris. The film Barbeau, Libre comme l'art,
which examines the artist and his oeuvre, could be seen at the FIFA
(Festival international des films sur l'art de Montreal) in March 2000,
as well as at the Festival international des films d'art et
pedagogiques, in December of 2000 at Unesco in Paris.
One can
find more information on the artist's career and oeuvre and namely the
series "Diversion and Variations" on the artist's web site:
http://www.marcelbarbeau.com.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is from Ninon Gauthier, art historian who is completing the extensive catalogue on this artist:
Marcel
Barbeau was born in Montreal, Canada in 1925. He was a member of the
Automatistes Group and signatory of this Canadian abstract
expressionist art movement in 1948. He was a pioneer of abstract
painting and sculpture in Canada in the mid-forties. He has lived,
worked and exhibited in the United States between 1964 and 1971.
He
has currently been involved in performances with dancer and musicians
since 1972 (Caen, France).
His works are in most Canadian art museums
and in a few public galleries in the United States and in Europe among
which the Chrysler Museum, the Rose Art Museum, the British Museum
(London), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).
He currently lives in Paris
(France) spending a few months a year in North America.
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